The Policy of Hate

After a couple of days of cloudy rumors,
the news broke over the weekend. The Roosevelt Cabinet was violently
split, over the gravest problem now before all Allied Governments: what
to do with postwar Germany?

Again there had been no real advance planning on a huge problem that had
been visibly approaching for a long time. Again there had been some
hasty last-minute improvisation, and the plan that was handiest and
most attractive at the moment had been seized on.

The plan that had been put forward, by Treasury Secretary Henry
Morgenthau, had roused the violent objections of Secretaries Cordell
Hull and...